Real Gold are a London-based collective.
We support people and ideas we believe in.
Since 2006
RGEVENT0022 // Magnitude
Real Gold presents 'Magnitude', a sculpture show uniting five young artists and ten sculptures in the energy of dialogue.
Each artist, while working with similar industrial materials, has pursued their own conceptual path to come together for the first time within the show. Each artist presents two pieces, the exhibiting of which is collaborative with another artist, devoid of an external curator.
This series of physical pairings interrogates the nature of dialogue between both the artists and their pieces, the independent and the communal.
How do forms mirror?
How do forms oppose?
Which is supported by the other?
Which is greater than the other?
Real Gold started a weekly club night in the summer of 2007 called Cough/Cool in a neon basement in Dalston named Pier One Nitespot. The venue was great, the special guests were great… but back then nobody wanted to party in that area every Thursday night.
Around the same time we started putting on parties at The Macbeth on Hoxton Street. We promoted some of the venue’s very first events and, we’re proud to say, helped get the ball rolling at what is now one of London’s best venues. The Macbeth’s owners, Mark and Mark, became good friends to Real Gold and they (perhaps jokingly) said that one day they’d buy us a venue of our own as a thank you.
In late 2009 we were forwarded an e-mail from someone who had spotted Pier One was for sale. “Looks like it wasn’t just your night that didn’t work there,” they said. We instantly forwarded the listing to Mark and Mark, begging them to trust us that Dalston was the right location for a free entry late-night bar. They put in an offer. It got accepted. They gave us the keys. Real Gold had its own bar. The Alibi was born.
Building and furnishing started soon after, all handled by our friends. However, with money quickly running out we prematurely opened doors on 3rd March 2010. The DJ table was an old door, there was nowhere to sit, only one toilet and everyone left covered in dust… but we were open. As and when we could afford it we got ourselves some chairs, more toilets and fixed in a Void Acoustic soundsystem that has continued to play host to an array of amazing and diverse music.
And now, somehow, 2 years have passed!
On Saturday 3rd March we are having a huge party with the help of lots of our resident DJs, free booze and a later-than-usual closing time to help us celebrate!
A house party of fleeting sensation.
Featuring work from Jack Becthler, Lewis Teague Wright, Phoebe Collings-James, Rhys Coren, Stan Still and Tyrone Lebon
Music from the Angle Gabriel, Fervent Moon, Ronojoy Dam and Stevie Nudist.
With a special piano performance from Gwilym Gold.
Open fires, smells of devotion, seductive soundz, smoke machines, Christmas tree forest, film and photo love, erotic city.
In the winter of 2006, a group of friends came together to found Real Gold, in the hope of supporting the people and ideas that they were passionate about.
Real Gold’s first public appearance was DJing for an Animal Collective after-party below an S&M club, before hosting their first event ‘A Large Party’ in December 2006 at the Wallis Gallery space in Hackney Wick, featuring Young Turks, Merok Records, producer Martin Cole (RIP), Jack Penate and NTS Radio founder Mr Wonderful.
The subsequent years saw a series of club nights (The International Amalgamation of Champions, Rich History & Cough / Cool) and early shows featuring the best new music including Actress, Adele, Bok Bok, Bullion, Dels, Emmy The Great, Florence and the Machine, Fucked Up, Gwilym Gold, The Horrors, How To Dress Well, Jamie XX, Joy Orbison, Laura Marling, Lightspeed Champion, New Look, Sampha and the Shining. Combined with often being the first of our contemporaries to host nights at some of London’s more original and infamous venues, Time Out called us “saviours of London nightlife.”
The shows paved a way for a series of t-shirt releases including a Young Turks collaboration and Warzone homage, the Train Chronicles debut record and music videos for A.R.E Weapons and Enchante. In Christmas 2007 we opened up a temporary store off Carnaby Street with stylists Avigail Claire and Damian Collins’ label Silver Spoon Attire. We made a move into print and publishing in 2008 with the launch of cult satirical magazine FUN, internationally distributed for free, and Real Gold members Ben Freeman and Ben Rayner launching Ditto Press and Rayner Books respectively.
In 2010, having already put on nights at its previous incarnation as Dalston’s Pier One Nightspot, Real Gold opened its first bar, The Alibi.
Real Gold family have exhibited at the Barbican, ICA, the RCA, and in Hoorn, New York, Paris, L.A and Tokyo, as well as hosting openings for the Hannah Barry Gallery’s ‘Optimism: The Art of Our Time’ (2008) and the Bold Tendencies sculpture exhibition (2011).
It’s been five years since we started.
We’re having a party to mark this start.
Please come and join us to celebrate.
Real Gold presents ‘Aaliyah – 10 Years Gone’.
On Thursday 25th August, exactly a decade after she tragically passed, we pay tribute to our favourite R’n'B starlet with a night of music that celebrates the inspiration and influence she was.
Please come and join us in remembering Aaliyah’s life and music.
Real Gold and Bold Tendencies kindly invite you to the special opening of Bold Tendencies 5 featuring secret live music guests and drinks at Frank’s Café.
6.30 onwards. Please arrive before sunset.
Peckham Multi-storey Car Park, London SE15 4ST
Bold Tendencies is a free summertime sculpture project dedicated to showcasing new art by international artists on the top floors of Peckham multi-storey car park.
Bold Tendencies 5: Eva Berendes, David Brooks, Mircea Cantor, James Capper, Rachael Champion Michael Dean, Jess Flood-Paddock, Lilah Fowler, Camille Henrot, Matt Keegan & James Richards, Kitty Kraus, Mamiko Otsubo, Bettina Pousttchi and The Bruce High Quality Foundation.
Frank’s Cafe and a new Auditorium & Kiosk by Practice Architecture
RGEVENT0015 // Real Gold Photographers Senate - Edition Two
Real Gold Photographers’ Senate is a series of photography shows with accompanying zines, aiming to spotlight our favourite photographers, both new and established. Our aim is simple – to make some noise about the photographic artists we admire most today.
Real Gold started a weekly club night in the summer of 2007 called Cough/Cool in a neon basement in Dalston named Pier One Nitespot. The venue was great, the special guests were great… but back then nobody wanted to party in that area every Thursday night.
Around the same time we started putting on parties at The Macbeth on Hoxton Street. We promoted some of the venue’s very first events and, we’re proud to say, helped get the ball rolling at what is now one of London’s best venues. The Macbeth’s owners, Mark and Mark, became good friends to Real Gold and they (perhaps jokingly) said that one day they’d buy us a venue of our own as a thank you.
In late 2009 we were forwarded an e-mail from someone who had spotted Pier One was for sale. “Looks like it wasn’t just your night that didn’t work there,” they said. We instantly forwarded the listing to Mark and Mark, begging them to trust us that Dalston was the right location for a free entry late-night bar. They put in an offer. It got accepted. They gave us the keys. Real Gold had its own bar. The Alibi was born.
Building and furnishing started soon after, all handled by our friends. However, with money quickly running out we prematurely opened doors on 3rd March 2010. The DJ table was an old door, there was nowhere to sit, only one toilet and everyone left covered in dust… but we were open. As and when we could afford it we got ourselves some chairs, more toilets and fixed in a Void Acoustic soundsystem that has continued to play host to an array of amazing and diverse music.
And now, somehow, 2 years have passed!
On Saturday 3rd March we are having a huge party with the help of lots of our resident DJs, free booze and a later-than-usual closing time to help us celebrate! 
A house party of fleeting sensation.
Featuring work from Jack Becthler, Lewis Teague Wright, Phoebe Collings-James, Rhys Coren, Stan Still and Tyrone Lebon
Music from the Angle Gabriel, Fervent Moon, Ronojoy Dam and Stevie Nudist.
With a special piano performance from Gwilym Gold.
Open fires, smells of devotion, seductive soundz, smoke machines, Christmas tree forest, film and photo love, erotic city. 
In the winter of 2006, a group of friends came together to found Real Gold, in the hope of supporting the people and ideas that they were passionate about.
Real Gold’s first public appearance was DJing for an Animal Collective after-party below an S&M club, before hosting their first event ‘A Large Party’ in December 2006 at the Wallis Gallery space in Hackney Wick, featuring Young Turks, Merok Records, producer Martin Cole (RIP), Jack Penate and NTS Radio founder Mr Wonderful.
The subsequent years saw a series of club nights (The International Amalgamation of Champions, Rich History & Cough / Cool) and early shows featuring the best new music including Actress, Adele, Bok Bok, Bullion, Dels, Emmy The Great, Florence and the Machine, Fucked Up, Gwilym Gold, The Horrors, How To Dress Well, Jamie XX, Joy Orbison, Laura Marling, Lightspeed Champion, New Look, Sampha and the Shining. Combined with often being the first of our contemporaries to host nights at some of London’s more original and infamous venues, Time Out called us “saviours of London nightlife.”
The shows paved a way for a series of t-shirt releases including a Young Turks collaboration and Warzone homage, the Train Chronicles debut record and music videos for A.R.E Weapons and Enchante. In Christmas 2007 we opened up a temporary store off Carnaby Street with stylists Avigail Claire and Damian Collins’ label Silver Spoon Attire. We made a move into print and publishing in 2008 with the launch of cult satirical magazine FUN, internationally distributed for free, and Real Gold members Ben Freeman and Ben Rayner launching Ditto Press and Rayner Books respectively.
In 2010, having already put on nights at its previous incarnation as Dalston’s Pier One Nightspot, Real Gold opened its first bar, The Alibi.
Real Gold family have exhibited at the Barbican, ICA, the RCA, and in Hoorn, New York, Paris, L.A and Tokyo, as well as hosting openings for the Hannah Barry Gallery’s ‘Optimism: The Art of Our Time’ (2008) and the Bold Tendencies sculpture exhibition (2011).
It’s been five years since we started.
We’re having a party to mark this start.
Please come and join us to celebrate. 
Real Gold presents ‘Aaliyah – 10 Years Gone’.
On Thursday 25th August, exactly a decade after she tragically passed, we pay tribute to our favourite R’n'B starlet with a night of music that celebrates the inspiration and influence she was.
Please come and join us in remembering Aaliyah’s life and music. 
Real Gold and Bold Tendencies kindly invite you to the special opening of Bold Tendencies 5 featuring secret live music guests and drinks at Frank’s Café.
6.30 onwards. Please arrive before sunset.
Peckham Multi-storey Car Park, London SE15 4ST
Bold Tendencies is a free summertime sculpture project dedicated to showcasing new art by international artists on the top floors of Peckham multi-storey car park.
Bold Tendencies 5: Eva Berendes, David Brooks, Mircea Cantor, James Capper, Rachael Champion Michael Dean, Jess Flood-Paddock, Lilah Fowler, Camille Henrot, Matt Keegan & James Richards, Kitty Kraus, Mamiko Otsubo, Bettina Pousttchi and The Bruce High Quality Foundation.
Frank’s Cafe and a new Auditorium & Kiosk by Practice Architecture
Real Gold Photographers’ Senate is a series of photography shows with accompanying zines, aiming to spotlight our favourite photographers, both new and established. Our aim is simple – to make some noise about the photographic artists we admire most today. 
